All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part IV

[robkelk]

 

I made your life easier, Rob. I checkusered most of the spammers, and they were all using the same IP addresses, all blocked, so this should get them to go away for awhile, put in a request with our stewards if you need any further help, k?

Thanks. I promoted a trusted rollbacker to admin and got his help in cleaning out the spam flood, so we're covered for now. I've also blocked all accounts created today (all 298 of them - we usually get one or two a week), so if the spammers try again with the accounts they didn't use, the new IP addresses should be blocked.

I have had a feature request in for a couple of months, to change the permission of creating new pages from "User" to "Confirmed" (or "Administrator"). That would help prevent a re-occurrence of this mess...

 

Per your request, I have changed the settings to the following:

users - can edit, but not create new pages.
confirmed/autoconfirmed - can edit and create new pages.

Also, I would like your opinion on the above extensions for ATT, let me know if you want them on your wiki as well.

Thank you very much. I owe you a coffee (or something similar).

The proposed additions make sense for ATT, in my opinion. As for poserdazfreebies, I can see a use for Replace_Text, but not the others. (I'm sorely tempted to ask for MsLinks, but I know that making it easy to download files would encourage people to actually upload copies of the files we higlight on the wiki, and then I'd have to start buying disk space by the terabyte for Orain. I know how expensive a fully-managed, fully-backed-up, fully-powered, RAID-hosted terabyte is. Best not to go there.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012